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2D Structure
Also known as: 60-35-5, Ethanamide, Acetic acid amide, Methanecarboxamide, Acetimidic acid, Ethanimidic acid
Molecular Formula
C2H5NO
Molecular Weight
59.07  g/mol
InChI Key
DLFVBJFMPXGRIB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
FDA UNII
8XOE1JSO29

Acetamide is a metabolite found in or produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
1 2D Structure

2D Structure

2 Identification
2.1 Computed Descriptors
2.1.1 IUPAC Name
acetamide
2.1.2 InChI
InChI=1S/C2H5NO/c1-2(3)4/h1H3,(H2,3,4)
2.1.3 InChI Key
DLFVBJFMPXGRIB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
2.1.4 Canonical SMILES
CC(=O)N
2.2 Other Identifiers
2.2.1 UNII
8XOE1JSO29
2.3 Synonyms
2.3.1 MeSH Synonyms

1. Acetamide, Monosodium Salt

2.3.2 Depositor-Supplied Synonyms

1. 60-35-5

2. Ethanamide

3. Acetic Acid Amide

4. Methanecarboxamide

5. Acetimidic Acid

6. Ethanimidic Acid

7. Amide C2

8. Amid Kyseliny Octove

9. Caswell No. 003h

10. Acetimidic Acid (van)

11. Ccris 2

12. Nci-c02108

13. Hsdb 4006

14. Ch3conh2

15. Acetamide, Homopolymer

16. Ai3-02060

17. 8xoe1jso29

18. Chebi:27856

19. Nsc-25945

20. Acetamid

21. 74330-92-0

22. Acetoamide

23. Ethanamid

24. Amid Kyseliny Octove [czech]

25. Einecs 200-473-5

26. Nsc 25945

27. Unii-8xoe1jso29

28. Acetylamine

29. Brn 1071207

30. Essigsaeureamid

31. Imidoacetic Acid

32. N-methylformamde

33. Mfcd00008023

34. Dsstox_cid_5

35. Acetamide, >=98%

36. Acetamide [mi]

37. Acetamide [fhfi]

38. Acetamide [hsdb]

39. Acetamide [iarc]

40. Acetamide, Reagent

41. Lopac-a-0500

42. Bmse000825

43. Bmse000895

44. Ec 200-473-5

45. Acetamide [who-dd]

46. Acetamide, Sublimed, 99%

47. Wln: Zv1

48. Acetic Acid Amide;ethanamide

49. Dsstox_rid_75317

50. Acetamide, ~99% (gc)

51. Dsstox_gsid_20005

52. Lopac0_000003

53. 4-02-00-00399 (beilstein Handbook Reference)

54. Mls002153504

55. Acetamide, Analytical Standard

56. Bidd:er0566

57. Chembl16081

58. Gtpl4661

59. Dtxsid7020005

60. Fema No. 4251

61. Acetamide, Crystalline, >=99%

62. Chebi:49028

63. Acetamide, >=98.0% (gc)

64. Acetamide, >=99.0% (gc)

65. Hms3260a07

66. Acetamide (6ci,7ci,8ci,9ci)

67. Bcp26153

68. Hy-y0946

69. Nsc25945

70. Str01066

71. Zinc8034818

72. Tox21_300776

73. Tox21_500003

74. S6011

75. Stl283915

76. Akos000118788

77. Akos015917387

78. Ccg-204099

79. Db02736

80. Lp00003

81. Sdccgsbi-0049992.p002

82. Cas-60-35-5

83. Benzeneacetic?acid,?

84. A-amino-4-methyl-

85. Ncgc00015030-01

86. Ncgc00015030-02

87. Ncgc00015030-03

88. Ncgc00015030-04

89. Ncgc00015030-05

90. Ncgc00015030-06

91. Ncgc00093530-01

92. Ncgc00093530-02

93. Ncgc00254680-01

94. Ncgc00260688-01

95. Smr000326670

96. A0007

97. Cs-0015934

98. Eu-0100003

99. Ft-0603458

100. Ft-0621721

101. Ft-0621725

102. Ft-0625737

103. A 0500

104. C06244

105. A832706

106. Q421721

107. Sr-01000076247

108. J-523678

109. Sr-01000076247-1

110. Acetamide, Zone-refined, Purified By Sublimation, 99%

111. F1908-0077

112. 02u

2.4 Create Date
2004-09-16
3 Chemical and Physical Properties
Molecular Weight 59.07 g/mol
Molecular Formula C2H5NO
XLogP3-0.9
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count1
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count1
Rotatable Bond Count0
Exact Mass59.037113783 g/mol
Monoisotopic Mass59.037113783 g/mol
Topological Polar Surface Area43.1 Ų
Heavy Atom Count4
Formal Charge0
Complexity33
Isotope Atom Count0
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count0
Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count0
Defined Bond Stereocenter Count0
Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count0
Covalently Bonded Unit Count1
4 Drug and Medication Information
4.1 Therapeutic Uses

/EXPL THER/ /The study objective was/ to observe the effect of fluoroacetamide on cardiomyocytes of rat and the antidotal effect of acetamide. Four groups of SD rats were treated with various dosages of fluoroacetamid (p.o.) and 2 groups of them were treated with acetamide (i.p.). The changes of cardiomyocytes and serum AST, LDH, CK, CK-MB and HBDH were measured at different intervals after poisoning. In the group treated with fluoroacetamid 8 mg/kg. bw, serum AST[(589.58 +/- 821.72) U/L], CK[(916.78 +/- 343.55) U/L], HBDH[(504.47 +/- 148.88) U/L] raised obviously compared with control[(187.70 +/- 46.87), (755.65 +/- 498.90), (347.25 +/- 228.40) U/L respectively] (p<0.01), and the pathological findings such as degeneration, liquefactive necrosis and filtration of inflammatory cells in cardiac muscles were observed 24 hours later, while all the male dead within 3 days. In the group treated with fluoroacetamid 4 mg/kg. bw, serum LDH and HBDH rose significantly compared with control (p<0.01) 5 day later. On the day of 10, myocardial enzymes restored in all experiment groups with some interstitial fibroblastic proliferation. The pathological changes were reduced in the group treated with acetamide synchronously (100 mg/kg. bw). Acute intoxication of fluoroacetamide could damage cardiomyocytes while acetamide could reduce the injury of them, but the injury was reversible. ...

PMID:14694659 Zhu G et al; Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 20 (4): 300-3 (2002)


/EXPL THER/ /The study objective was/ to investigate the effects of acetamide at different doses on the expression of inhibitory amino acids (gamma-aminobutyric acid, GABA) and excitatory amino acid (glutamate, Glu) in the cerebral cortex of rats with acute tetramine (TET) poisoning. Eighty Sprague-Dawley rats (SPF) were randomly divided into five groups, with 16 rats in each group: saline control group, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) control group, TET exposure group, high-dose (2.8 g/kg/d) acetamide treatment group, and super-high-dose (5.6 g/kg/d) acetamide treatment group. Rats in the exposure group and treatment groups were exposed to TET by intragastric administration after fasting, and were then intramuscularly injected with saline or different doses of acetamide in the following 5 days. The cortex of the temporal lobe was collected at 3 hr, 12 hr, 48 hr, or 7 d after treatment. The expression levels of GABA and Glu in the cortex of the temporal lobe were determined by average optical density (OD) values in immunohistochemistry. ... The OD value of GABA in TET exposure group started to increase at 12 hr after treatment, reached the peak at 48 hr, and decreased to the normal level at 7 d. In the high-dose acetamide treatment group, the increase in OD at 12 hr was not so significant as that in the TET exposure group, OD value decreased to the normal level at 48 hr and was lower than that in the exposure group, and the changes were more like those in the control groups. In the super-high-dose acetamide treatment group, OD value began to increase significantly at 3 hr and was significantly higher than that in the TET exposure group (p<0.01), it reached the peak at 12 hr, and was restored to the normal value at 48 hr. ... The OD value of Glu in TET exposure group at 3 hr after treatment was significantly lower than those in the two control groups, it increased gradually from 12 hr to 48 hr, and recovered to the normal level at the 7th d. The changes in the high-dose acetamide treatment group were similar to those in the TET exposure group, but became more like those in the control groups after 48 hr; the OD value in super-high-dose acetamide treatment group was significantly higher than that in the TET exposure group at 3 hr after treatment (p<0.01), while no significant difference was found at 12 hr; it was significantly lower than those of all other groups at 48 hr and 7 d (p<0.01). Treatment with high dose of acetamide has some curative effect on TET poisoning-induced central nervous lesion, while the effect of super-high-dose acetamide on expression of neurotransmitters is too complex to evaluate.

PMID:25169228 Wang X et al; Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 32 (6): 438-41 (2014)


5 Pharmacology and Biochemistry
5.1 Absorption, Distribution and Excretion

The volume of distribution was about 1 mL/g, total body clearance was 0.27 mL/min and renal clearance was 0.19 mL/min. Approximately 64 72% of (14)C acetamide was excreted in the urine, while only 0.5 0.8% appeared in exhaled air during the first 6 hr after dosing. Thus, approximately 30% of the administered dose was not recovered and it was suggested that metabolized acetamide enters the acetate pool.

IARC. Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans. Geneva: World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1972-PRESENT. (Multivolume work). Available at: https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/index.php, p. V71 1213 (1999)


Less than 0.07% of the recovered urinary radioactivity in rats given 100 or 1000 mg/kg bw (14)C acetamide coeluted upon high performance liquid chromatography with an N-hydroxyacetamide standard and this hydroxamic acid could not be detected after incubation of acetamide with rat liver microsomes and NADPH or in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. (14)C Acetamide does not bind covalently to proteins in the presence of rat liver microsomes and NADPH or cytosolic fraction, whereas hepatocyte cultures contained non extractable radioactivity. This association was inhibited by cycloheximide to the same extent as (14)C acetate incorporation into cellular proteins.

IARC. Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans. Geneva: World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1972-PRESENT. (Multivolume work). Available at: https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/index.php, p. V71 1213 (1999)


5.2 Metabolism/Metabolites

Acetamide ... was found in small amt in human urine as metabolite of metronidazole.

Koch RL et al; Science (Washington, DC 1883-) 211 (4480): 398-400 (1981)


Metabolism of metronidazole to acetamide was apparently mediated by intestinal flora.

Koch RL et al; Biochem Pharmacol 28 (24): 3611-5 (1979)


Acetamide is carcinogenic in rats and mice. To clarify the mechanism of carcinogenesis by acetamide, we investigated DNA damage by andacetamide metabolite, acetohydroxamic acid (AHA), using 32P-5'-end-labeled DNA fragments. AHA treated with amidase induced DNA damage in the presence of Cu(II) and displayed a similar DNA cleavage pattern of hydroxylamine. DNA damage was inhibited by both catalase and bathocuproine, suggesting that H2O2 and Cu(I) are involved. Carboxy-PTIO, a specific scavenger of nitric oxide (NO), partially inhibited DNA damage. The amount of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) by amidase-treated AHA was similar to that by hydroxylamine. ESR spectrometry revealed that amidase-treated AHA as well as hydroxylamine generated NO in the presence of Cu(II). From these results, it has been suggested that AHA might be converted into hydroxylamine by amidase. These results suggest that metal-mediated DNA damage mediated by amidase-catalyzed hydroxylamine generation plays an important role in the carcinogenicity of acetamide.

PMID:15356919 Sakano K et al; Chem Biol Interact 149 (1): 52-9 (2004)


5.3 Biological Half-Life

The half life of radioactivity in blood after intravenous dosing of (14)C acetamide to rats averaged 20.6 + or - 0.3 hr after a 10 mg/kg bw dose and 16.1 + or - 1.6 hr after a 50 mg/kg bw dose.

IARC. Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans. Geneva: World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1972-PRESENT. (Multivolume work). Available at: https://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/index.php, p. V71 1213 (1999)